Saturday, Nov. 7, don't miss Remnants and Umbrellas: Dance & Film Installation in Plaza de España Inspired by the work of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy, during Sleepless Night Miami Beach!

Coppola’s Original Screenplays
Tetro
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola/2009. With Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura

It is hard to imagine that this is only the third film Coppola has written and produced in his entire prolific 50-year career as a filmmaker. (Coppola also wrote 1974's “The Conversation,” screening at MBC on Saturday.)

“Tetro” is a deeply personal story for Coppola, and the sincerity of that emotional connection translates into an openness and intimacy in blocking and cinematography that invites the viewer into the room as a weekend guest of the Tettrocinni family, rather than as an audience or witness. In good times and in bad, we are there - sharing the same space with equal footing, and insight into visceral truth, as the characters.

This is a story of wounds, the injuries of the past played out in the pain of the present, and a cycle that hungrily feeds upon itself. It is painful rivalry that drives Tetro mad, and painful rivalry that brings him back to life. An ageless Tragedian story, Tetro is a gorgeously edited, beautifully acted, simply presented, yet richly surrealized ouroborous.
Friday, Oct. 30 at 7 and 9:15 p.m.

The Conversation
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola/1974/113mins. With Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest

Francis Ford Coppola's “The Conversation” is one of the great American masterpieces of the 1970s, with one of the most intricate yet subtle scripts ever written (by Coppola himself). Gene Hackman, in one of the best acting roles of the period, plays surveillance expert Harry Caul, who makes the mistake of getting personally involved in a disturbing assignment. But is he the victim or the instigator?
Saturday, Oct 31 at 2 p.m.

HALLOWEEN!
Frankenstein
Directed by James Whale/1931/71 mins. With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles

James Whale is most famous for this early film of the Universal Horror cannon - one that was followed by a series of sequels and related entries in the world's most famous and respected horror cycle. Boris Karloff plays the monster. Colin Clive plays Dr. Frankenstein. Together they made history under Whale's direction.
Saturday, Oct. 31 at 8:30 p.m.

The Invisable Man
Directed by James Whale/1933/71 mins. With Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrington, Henry Travers

A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn in the British village of Ipping. Never leaving his quarters, the stranger demands that the staff leave him completely alone. That's because his entire body is undetectable to the human eye. Monocane, the drug responsible, has also had the side effect of driving him insane.
Sunday, Oct. 1 at 8:30 p.m.

Vu Par Varda Series
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Directed by Jacques Demy/France/1964/91 mins. With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel

Considered one of the most beautiful color films ever made, Jacques Demy's masterpiece of music and romance — and winner of the

1964 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize — catapulted the 20-year-old Catherine Deneuve to international stardom. This restoration, supervised by Demy's widow Agnès Varda, restores one of the great French classics to its former glory. In French with English subtitles.
Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8:30 p.m.

SLEEPLESS NIGHT MIAMI BEACH
Remnants and Umbrellas: Dance & Film Installation in Plaza de España
Inspired by the work of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy

This site-specific kaleidoscope of movement, music, and film on Española Way at Plaza de España is produced by Thought Loom and the MBC, and incorporates Jacques Demy's “Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and Agnès Varda's films from the Nouvelle Vague period. Admission to this celebration of the moving image fused with dance, colors and rich black and white graze sparse canvases; mirror-clad palms and umbrellas become screens which reflect images of an era as seen through the eyes of two visionaries who changed the world of cinema is free.
Saturday, Nov. 7 at 9, 10 and 11 p.m.

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